Add Office 365 Email to Outlook Using DIY Method
Summary- If you are on this page, then it might possible that you are facing difficulties while adding Office 365 or Microsoft 365 email to Outlook for desktop. If it is true, then don’t move your curser because here in this blog we are going discuss the step-by-step to add Office 365 email to Outlook. So have patience and keep reading the write-up.
Well, Office 365 which is now known as Microsoft 365 is a platform that helps many organizations and individuals to meet their daily emailing needs. But apart from that, there are a large number of users who want to configure their Office 365 account to Outlook for desktop. So, they can access all their emails easily and respond to them quickly.
So, now without wasting a time let’s jump into the blog
How to Add Office 365 Email to Outlook Manually
Basically in this section, we are going to discuss the step-by-step configuration process to configure Microsoft 365 accounts to Outlook. Because there are huge numbers of chunks that find difficulties while adding an Office 365 account to Outlook. So go through this section and learn the steps if you are stitching from Mac Office 365 to Windows Outlook.
Note: Always make sure before starting the procedure Outlook application is installed and updated.
#Method 1: Add Office 365 Account Without Using Outlook
1. First, go to click on the Start button on the Windows computer
2. Then type Control Panel and press enter
3. Now, choose View by drop-down option and select Small Icon and that choose the Mail option
4. Now, from the new window click on the Add button
5. Under Add Account select the Manual setup and then Next
6. Choose Office 365 and enter the Office 365 email id >> Next
7. After this just verify the Microsoft 365 account and once the verification is done, the Autodiscovery.xml login page opens
8. Enter the valid Office 365 login credentials and click on the Nex button
9. Once the login is successfully done a notification window appears and with the message “Congratulations! Your email account was successfully configured and ready to use”
10. Now, open your Outlook application to check all Microsoft 365 emails in Outlook
#Method 2: Add Office 365 Email to Outlook Using MS Outlook
1. Open the Outlook program on your desktop and click on the File option
2. Now, choose Account Settings >> Account Settings
3. From the Account Settings window click on the New tab
4. Select Manual setup or Additional server types and then click on the Next.
5. Now, from the open window Select POP or IMAP
6. After that fill all the required fields as follow:
7. Enter your name and the e-mail address that you want to add
8. Select the IMAP form Account Type drop-down menu
9. Now, enter the Incoming mail server: outlook.office365.com
10. And for Outgoing mail server: smtp.office365.com
11. Type your User Name( enter the e-mail address again)
12. In the password, section enter your password
13. Click on the More Settings and go to the Advanced tab
14. Now, enter the port numbers and select the encrypted connections
- Enter Incoming mail server: 993 and choose Type of encrypted connection “SSL”
- Again enter Outgoing mail server: 587 and choose Type of encrypted connection “TLS”
15. After all the settings, click on the OK >> OK >> and then Next and Finish
16. Open your Outlook to get all the Office 365 emails
Alternative Method to Add Office 365 Email to Outlook
Well, the above solution is quite enough to add your Mac Office 365 account to Outlook for Windows, but there are some users who reported that they are getting and password issue. According to users while adding Office 365 account they encounter an unusual issue that and i.e. ”Outlook does not accept the password” and asking for password again and again.
So, if you are facing the same then you can try Mac Office 365 Backup utility. This tool is enough capable to save all your Mac Office 365 account data into PST. So, you can easily import all the data to Outlook. This tool also gives the option to save Office 365 data into Thunderbird MBOX, MSG, EML, and EMLX formats.
So, if you encounter any problem during the manual configuration, then you can try the demo version of this tool to save Office 365 Outlook email to Outlook for desktop
Conclusion
There are many users asking how to add Office 365 email to Outlook, So, after considering the queries here in this blog we have discussed the step-by-step configuration process of the Mac Office 365 account to Outlook. In addition, we have also discussed the automated way to complete this task if you find any difficulties in the manual method.